Faculty by Research Specialization

The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is known for its innovative research and exemplary scholarship. Our faculty work at the cutting edge of their respective fields, covering a wide variety of geographic, temporal, and thematic fields of study. The areas of specialization listed here are by no means an exhaustive list of our scholastic interests. Rather, they highlight the diverse and often overlapping ideas and approaches we explore within our teaching and research.

Nathaniel Deutsch

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
    • Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

Individual profile page for Nathaniel Deutsch

Charles W Hedrick Jr.

  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Ancient World / Classics, Democracy, Classical Studies, Classics, History
Individual profile page for Charles W Hedrick Jr.

Elaine A. Sullivan

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Egyptology; Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments; Ancient World / Classics; History
Individual profile page for Elaine A. Sullivan

Noriko Aso

  • Title
    • East Asian Studies Program Director
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

Individual profile page for Noriko Aso

David Brundage

  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus
    • Research Professor of History
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History
Individual profile page for David Brundage

Shelly Chan

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern and contemporary China through transnational, diasporic, and oceanic approaches

Individual profile page for Shelly Chan

Alan S Christy

  • Title
    • Cowell Provost
    • Professor
    • History Department Undergraduate Program Director
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities
Individual profile page for Alan S Christy

Grace Peña Delgado

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
  • Summary of Expertise

    North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

    Immigration--Mexican, Asian

    Gender and Sexuality 

    Race and Nationalism

    Chinese in Mexico

Individual profile page for Grace Peña Delgado

Alma Rachel Heckman

  • Title
    • Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish History

    Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

     

Individual profile page for Alma Rachel Heckman

Edward H. Kehler

  • Title
    • Continuing Lecturer
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics
Individual profile page for Edward H. Kehler

Aims McGuinness

  • Title
    • College Provost, Merrill College
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History
  • Summary of Expertise

    Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Individual profile page for Aims McGuinness

Gregory E. O′Malley

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
Individual profile page for Gregory E. O'Malley

Bruce A Thompson

  • Title
    • Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator
    • Continuing Lecturer
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
  • Summary of Expertise

    European history, Jewish history and literature.

Individual profile page for Bruce A Thompson

Alice S. Yang

  • Title
    • Chair, History Department
    • Associate Professor of History
    • Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
  • Summary of Expertise

    Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
    Read more ...

Individual profile page for Alice S. Yang

Noriko Aso

  • Title
    • East Asian Studies Program Director
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

Individual profile page for Noriko Aso

Benjamin Breen

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
  • Summary of Expertise

    I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...

Individual profile page for Benjamin Breen

David Brundage

  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus
    • Research Professor of History
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History
Individual profile page for David Brundage

Shelly Chan

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern and contemporary China through transnational, diasporic, and oceanic approaches

Individual profile page for Shelly Chan

Alan S Christy

  • Title
    • Cowell Provost
    • Professor
    • History Department Undergraduate Program Director
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities
Individual profile page for Alan S Christy

Muriam Haleh Davis

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies
Individual profile page for Muriam Haleh Davis

Jennifer L. Derr

  • Title
    • Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water
Individual profile page for Jennifer L. Derr

Marí­a Elena Dí­az

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish
  • Summary of Expertise

    Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history

Individual profile page for Marí­a Elena Dí­az

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of plant sciences

Individual profile page for Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez

Alma Rachel Heckman

  • Title
    • Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish History

    Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

     

Individual profile page for Alma Rachel Heckman

Edward H. Kehler

  • Title
    • Continuing Lecturer
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics
Individual profile page for Edward H. Kehler

Amy Lonetree

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Summary of Expertise

    Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Commemoration and Public Memory, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History

Individual profile page for Amy Lonetree

Marc Matera

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
Individual profile page for Marc Matera

Aims McGuinness

  • Title
    • College Provost, Merrill College
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History
  • Summary of Expertise

    Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Individual profile page for Aims McGuinness

Matt O′Hara

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Gregory E. O′Malley

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
Individual profile page for Gregory E. O'Malley

Eric Porter

  • Title
    • History Graduate Program Director
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
Individual profile page for Eric Porter

Juned Shaikh

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise India and Indian Studies, Marxism, World History, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Marxism, and Intellectual History.

Individual profile page for Juned Shaikh

Marilyn J Westerkamp

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
Individual profile page for Marilyn J Westerkamp

Alice S. Yang

  • Title
    • Chair, History Department
    • Associate Professor of History
    • Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
  • Summary of Expertise

    Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
    Read more ...

Individual profile page for Alice S. Yang

Muriam Haleh Davis

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies
Individual profile page for Muriam Haleh Davis

Grace Peña Delgado

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
  • Summary of Expertise

    North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

    Immigration--Mexican, Asian

    Gender and Sexuality 

    Race and Nationalism

    Chinese in Mexico

Individual profile page for Grace Peña Delgado

Nathaniel Deutsch

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
    • Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

Individual profile page for Nathaniel Deutsch

Marí­a Elena Dí­az

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish
  • Summary of Expertise

    Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history

Individual profile page for Marí­a Elena Dí­az

Alma Rachel Heckman

  • Title
    • Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish History

    Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

     

Individual profile page for Alma Rachel Heckman

Catherine A Jones

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Civil War, Gender Studies, Race, Youth Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Slavery and Emancipation

    Civil War Era

    History of Children and Childhood

    American South

Individual profile page for Catherine A Jones

Amy Lonetree

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Summary of Expertise

    Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Commemoration and Public Memory, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History

Individual profile page for Amy Lonetree

Marc Matera

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
Individual profile page for Marc Matera

Aims McGuinness

  • Title
    • College Provost, Merrill College
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History
  • Summary of Expertise

    Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Individual profile page for Aims McGuinness

Gregory E. O′Malley

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
Individual profile page for Gregory E. O'Malley

Eric Porter

  • Title
    • History Graduate Program Director
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
Individual profile page for Eric Porter

Alice S. Yang

  • Title
    • Chair, History Department
    • Associate Professor of History
    • Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
  • Summary of Expertise

    Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
    Read more ...

Individual profile page for Alice S. Yang

Benjamin Breen

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
  • Summary of Expertise

    I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...

Individual profile page for Benjamin Breen

Alan S Christy

  • Title
    • Cowell Provost
    • Professor
    • History Department Undergraduate Program Director
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities
Individual profile page for Alan S Christy

Nathaniel Deutsch

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
    • Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

Individual profile page for Nathaniel Deutsch

Minghui Hu

Individual profile page for Minghui Hu

Edward H. Kehler

  • Title
    • Continuing Lecturer
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics
Individual profile page for Edward H. Kehler

Matt O′Hara

Individual profile page for Matt O'Hara

Gregory E. O′Malley

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
Individual profile page for Gregory E. O'Malley

Marilyn J Westerkamp

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
Individual profile page for Marilyn J Westerkamp

Noriko Aso

  • Title
    • East Asian Studies Program Director
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

Individual profile page for Noriko Aso

Shelly Chan

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern and contemporary China through transnational, diasporic, and oceanic approaches

Individual profile page for Shelly Chan

Grace Peña Delgado

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
  • Summary of Expertise

    North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

    Immigration--Mexican, Asian

    Gender and Sexuality 

    Race and Nationalism

    Chinese in Mexico

Individual profile page for Grace Peña Delgado

Catherine A Jones

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Civil War, Gender Studies, Race, Youth Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Slavery and Emancipation

    Civil War Era

    History of Children and Childhood

    American South

Individual profile page for Catherine A Jones

Marc Matera

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
Individual profile page for Marc Matera

Marilyn J Westerkamp

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
Individual profile page for Marilyn J Westerkamp

Alice S. Yang

  • Title
    • Chair, History Department
    • Associate Professor of History
    • Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
  • Summary of Expertise

    Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
    Read more ...

Individual profile page for Alice S. Yang

David Brundage

  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus
    • Research Professor of History
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History
Individual profile page for David Brundage

Shelly Chan

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern and contemporary China through transnational, diasporic, and oceanic approaches

Individual profile page for Shelly Chan

Alma Rachel Heckman

  • Title
    • Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish History

    Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

     

Individual profile page for Alma Rachel Heckman

Marc Matera

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
Individual profile page for Marc Matera

Aims McGuinness

  • Title
    • College Provost, Merrill College
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History
  • Summary of Expertise

    Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Individual profile page for Aims McGuinness

Eric Porter

  • Title
    • History Graduate Program Director
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
Individual profile page for Eric Porter

Juned Shaikh

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise India and Indian Studies, Marxism, World History, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Marxism, and Intellectual History.

Individual profile page for Juned Shaikh

Alice S. Yang

  • Title
    • Chair, History Department
    • Associate Professor of History
    • Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
  • Summary of Expertise

    Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
    Read more ...

Individual profile page for Alice S. Yang

Nathaniel Deutsch

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
    • Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

Individual profile page for Nathaniel Deutsch

Alma Rachel Heckman

  • Title
    • Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish History

    Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

     

Individual profile page for Alma Rachel Heckman

Matt O′Hara

Individual profile page for Matt O'Hara

Bruce A Thompson

  • Title
    • Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator
    • Continuing Lecturer
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
  • Summary of Expertise

    European history, Jewish history and literature.

Individual profile page for Bruce A Thompson

Marilyn J Westerkamp

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
Individual profile page for Marilyn J Westerkamp

Benjamin Breen

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
  • Summary of Expertise

    I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...

Individual profile page for Benjamin Breen

Muriam Haleh Davis

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies
Individual profile page for Muriam Haleh Davis

Jennifer L. Derr

  • Title
    • Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water
Individual profile page for Jennifer L. Derr

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of plant sciences

Individual profile page for Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez

Minghui Hu

Individual profile page for Minghui Hu

Bruce A Thompson

  • Title
    • Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator
    • Continuing Lecturer
  • Email
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
  • Summary of Expertise

    European history, Jewish history and literature.

Individual profile page for Bruce A Thompson